Sentences with phrase «most distant reaches»

LRIS also records the spectra of up to 50 objects simultaneously, especially useful for studies of clusters of galaxies in the most distant reaches, and earliest times, of the universe.

It records the spectra of up to 50 objects simultaneously, especially useful for studies of galaxies in the most distant reaches, and earliest times, of the universe.

If so, gamma - ray bursts could help astronomers map the most distant reaches of the cosmos.

Air connects us to the most distant reaches of this planet, to all the life that has ever lived, even to the universe beyond.

Not exact matches

In an amazing feat of precise planning and dedication, the small spacecraft traveled 3 billion miles over nine and a half years to reach our most distant celestial neighbor.

In terms of eternal objects we may say that he reaches as far as the most distant standpoint he has made relevant by associating it with a specific eternal object (thereby perhaps making that eternal object first relevant).

HD 80606 b swings within 3 million miles of its star at its closest approach and reaches its most distant point, 81 million miles away, just 56 Earth - days later.

The New Horizons probe has the most distant target of any space mission ever attempted: everyone's favorite dwarf planet, Pluto, which it will reach in July 2015.

Urban glow will keep the faintest, most distant objects in the Universe out of reach.

Now, after more than two years since the discovery, researchers have confirmed the existence of cosmic neutrinos — ghostly particles that reached Earth after being born in the Milky Way and beyond, and can potentially help scientists understand some of the most distant phenomena in our universe.

Light from the most distant galaxies we can see has taken billions of years to reach us.

Join the Space Telescope Science Institute's Public Lecture Series for a retrospective view of Hubble's contributions to the investigation of the deep reaches of the cosmos, and some fresh glimpses of what Hubble is currently doing to further our understanding of the most distant parts of the universe.

Light from the object travelled from 13 to 14.5 billion light - years (ly)-- assuming an estimated age for the universe of roughly 14 to 15 or so billion years — before reaching the Solar System in March 2000, making J1030 the most distant object then detected in visible and x-ray wavelengths (Pentericci et al, 2002; and Malthur et al, 2002).

Light that is emitted or reflected by objects takes time to travel, and the vast distances it must cross to reach us from the farthest parts of the universe means that we see the most distant galaxies as they were billions of years ago.

At the time of its launch, the schoolbus - sized vehicle set out on the most distant planetary orbital mission ever, and when it reached the distant gas giant in 2004, the data its instruments collected yielded some astonishing revelations.

It was last at that point long before Clyde Tombaugh discovered the dwarf planet in 1930, and Pluto won't reach that most - distant point in its orbit again until the year 2113.

Fanon proclaims that the future of which he speaks is not a distant place blissfully floating out of reach but rather is always situated in our immediate surroundings and, perhaps most importantly, is imminent.

Astronomers spotted the black hole, the most distant ever found, sitting inside a bright object so far away that the light had been traveling for 13 billion years before reaching Earth.

Taking a flight is the most convenient way to travel from one location to another, and it is the only way to reach certain distant places around the world.